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celebrating the artfully impractical est 1987

Aug 4

Aug 4 Earthsun Cancun

I reley didn’t want to also be the one saying this - as well as every other sweating native right now - but it’s hot. Like, really hot. Like trouble-breathing-moving-eating-sleeping-existing hot. I understand that it is similarly, if not more so uncomfortable elsewhere in Europe Land but we are not accustomed to nor built for this degree of warm. My god is the sun and I must have sinned most grievously, though I can only guess at which one of my manifold transgressions Ra has finally decided to pull me up on. I needs must seek shade and air conditioning. I would even settle for curling up inside the meager sliver of shade around the trunk of this beautiful, beautiful tree. Look at that tree; isn't it beautiful?

I am told that Mexico is a hot place. It is also quite far away and must be accessed via an obscure chromantic ritual involving peanuts

I can no longer form coherent thought let alone write under such conditions. This could be a kind of hellish dress rehearsal (although if I could remove my skin right now I would) as I’m off to Cancun in a few weeks to play with the mosquitos. I am told that Mexico is a hot place. It is also quite far away and must be accessed via an obscure chromantic ritual involving peanuts, sleep depravation and for some reason Atlanta. I’m still reading the ancient texts on this subject. Here's another picture. This one's of a really old house. I think it's what my dad would call 'a fixer-upper'.

A large part of surviving this ritual would appear to be donning the appropriate psychological armour with which to guard the human mind against the arduous passage of time spent on multiple gravity defying vehicles of despair. For this, I shall almost certainly be equipping the Gameboy Colour in my quickdraw inventory slot, modified at the very least with a copy of Pokemon Crystal and whatever other gems I can farm for relief from the tedium of long-haul air travel. It could even be time to crack Oracle Of Seasons once and for all.

More info at: https://www.ticket-to-earth.com The mining boom has left New Providence to die, and just one Earthbound ship remains. Survivor Rose stands in defiance of a broken system. Rise up with fast-paced RPG tactics, and battle across vibrant fields of color. Join the fight in Ticket to Earth, a sci-fi tale of action and insurrection.

It’s the first game I’ve actually really had on my phone this year and it’s just a masterclass in gameplay, design and some really great writing.

One particular rummage yestereve on the store where the apps live yielded this little number. Ticket to Earth is a colour matching tactical turn-based sci fi RPG. I’ve checked and that’s what it is. It’s the first game I’ve actually really had on my phone this year and it’s just a masterclass in gameplay, design and some really great writing. Some have suggested that it could be a touch on the short side but Robot Circus - a developer from Melbourne in Australia which is a place absolutely familiar with heat - have promised that more delicious episodes are incoming, the second of which is in fact already out. My only problem is that I want to play it now and have never been the most patient of men.

I can imagine this being the perfect latent alternative to actively feasting on technology in order to remain simualtaneously conscious and sane in the airport.

Another potentially viable option would be that which I gifted to The Singularity Embodied for her own passage to that place; BBC Radio 4's fully voiced dramatisation of the first three Earthsea books. I talked some big talk a while back about how it was time to go back and pay my respects to Le Guin's masterwork but it hasn't happened yet. I can imagine this being the perfect latent alternative to actively feasting on technology in order to remain simultaneously conscious and sane in the airport. There could even be a chance that it might lull me to that elusive realm known as Sleep while crossing the Atlantic, which would be optimal as it is still the closest approximation to time travel that we have yet to develop.

I'm not sure if the idea of nodding off while listening to Ged & Co is sacrilege but it might be. In any case, while they do say that "There's no time like the present," that might, once again be the problem: I wish to travel with Ursula immediately and listen to these voices come alive. Willpower is hard.

At this rate I shall be stuck playing tic tac toe and reading the in flight magazine for the entire confection.

Recent Alchemy..

One year ago, we decided to put all of our things in one place, smash them together and see what happened. The result is pretty much what you’re looking at: A little lit, some travel, buckets of vinyl, a liberal sprinkling of film, far too much TV and hella video games.

Today is both a Thursday and also the Advent of Cupid’s Carnal Rites. Aren’t you the luckiest little biscuit? Maybe you don’t care. Perhaps you have someone else who does care and that is both a good and funny thing, fraught with sweat and elbows.

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ is a treat. I was initially confused by the release date as for some reason it appears our American cousins aren’t getting it until The Day Of Love, also known as February 14th. We’ve actually had it here in Drowntown since last Wednesday but no-one really seemed sure as to when we might catch a glimpse of this angelic beast.

It was only natural that I would be drawn like a fuzzy, ill-formed moth to Jim Guthrie’s haunted score for Capybara’s ‘Below’. He worked on the thing for five years. Possibly using a PS1 and MTV Music Maker. I find myself somewhat in awe.

We’re this far into EA’s agreement with Disney and we have only…two distinctly average [at best] games to show for it? My only conclusion is that Disney gives no cares about the games market and is sleeping on a monster trick with a large number of zeros attached to it.